United States presidential election, 1884

The United States presidential election, 1884 was held on 4 November 1884. The Governor of New York, Grover Cleveland, ran as the Democratic Party nominee, with Thomas A. Hendricks serving as his running mate. The Republican Party nominee was James G. Blaine, with John A. Logan serving as his running mate. Blaine defeated the incumbent Republican president Chester A. Arthur in the Republican primary, but he was deserted by the party's "Mugwumps", who saw him as corrupt. Blaine inadvertently lost the votes of Catholic and Irish voters after his spokesman Samuel Burchard said, in a speech in New York City, that Republicans did not "identify with the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism, and rebellion", insulting Catholic voters. Cleveland and Hendricks won the election with 219 electoral votes to Blaine and Logan's 182 votes.